This is all about the organization that aims to transform the Illinois Democratic Party from within. PDI also exists to act as a bridging organization between Progressive groups throughout Illinois. It's time for a cohesive Progressive movement, and we intend to facilitate exactly that.

Right now, for-profit prison operators are working on a plan to build a
nearly 800-bed detention facility outside Chicago to house federal
immigration detainees. The company, Corrections Corporation of America
(CCA) has a disturbing history of abusing its own workers and the persons
they detain.

*Senate Bill 1064 would stop these plans* - by extending the state's
current ban on for-profit correctional facilities to institutions that
detain persons for civil offenses (including immigration matters). Tell
your Representative to Say NO to for-profit detention in
Illinois<http://il.aclu.org/site/R?i=3XBKkQROZ8noi6rRkIwmWQ>.

State law in Illinois already recognizes that *detaining persons is a
function for the government, not for for-profit companies*. Currently,
state and local governments are banned from contracting with private
companies to run jails and other correctional facilities. But a facility
like the one proposed by CCA is not covered -- because it involves civil
detention. Senate Bill 1064 extends the current ban to cover civil
detention centers.

CCA has an especially tragic record of abusing detainees and workers. At
least 24 immigrant detainees have died at these private facilities -- many
for lack of medical treatment. We do not need this type of facility in
Illinois. <http://il.aclu.org/site/R?i=-f58WI7qx9SNHQZlAJAUFw>